Age Quotes - Page 170

I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you.

We tend to look through language and not realize how much power language has

In most agencies, account executives outnumber the copywriters two to one. If you were a dairy farmer, would you employ twice as many milkers as you had cows?

There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility

I'm scattered, and then that last hundred pages, bam, I'm a laser.

I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

The use of 'conspiracy theory' as a derogatory - as an epithet almost - is something the propagandists have perfected over the decades, and it's a useful tool for eliminating articulate dissent and other points of view, and information that might be inconvenient for a policy agenda.

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

I can't be skinny all the time. I like to drink and I like to eat. I like burgers and bagels.

Nobody else can make us discouraged; it is a choice that we alone make when facing disappointments.

Life holds only one tragedy, ultimately: not to have been a saint.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Give me any two pages of the Bible and I'll give you a picture.

None of us needs instruction in how to recognize what your heart is saying. We do need guidance, however, on how to have the courage to follow those feelings, since they will force us to change our lives in any case. But consider the consequences of not listening to the heart's guidance: depression, confusion, and the wretched feeling that we are not on our life's true path, but viewing it from a distance.

The language of Mexicans springs from abysmal extremes of power and impotence, domination and resentment.